Rappahannock Station, Va., May 3, 1864.
We move to-morrow morning with the grand army of the
Potomac. I have been here three days, and not found time to go over to the
Twentieth, only five miles distant. My regiment is in no condition to take into
action, but I must do the best I can. It will be a long and hard fight. God, I
hope, will give us the victory. The chances I think are even. Grant, I fear,
does not appreciate Lee's ability, nor the qualities of his army. Let us hope
for the best . . . . I am very well Give
me twenty days and I could make a splendid regiment of this, but man proposes
and Grant disposes. Good-by.
Ever faithfully
yours.
Frank.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 99
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